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In a sense, the Modernist revolution in form is most strikingly visible in the narrative genre. As Eysteinsson points out:
The entire issue of modernism is especially momentous and fore-grounded in the case of narrative, for the aesthetic proclivities of modernism seem bound to go against the very notion of narrativity, narrative progression, or storytelling in any traditional sense. (1990: 187)
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Gleb Struve (1954) contests the alleged origin of the interior monologue technique in Dujardin to which he thinks Dujardin’s own critical study Le Monologue intérieur: Son apparition, ses origins, sa place dans l’œuvre de James Joyce (Paris: Messein, 1931) has contributed. According to him, the technique is first identified by the Russian critic Chernyshevsky who locates its first instance in Tolstoy’s ‘Sevastopol in May 1855’ as a fine ‘depiction of an inner monologue’ (Struve, 1954: 1104).
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Sotirova, V. (2013). The Novel of Consciousness. In: Consciousness in Modernist Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137307255_2
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